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The Rat's Den: August 2013
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Laurie Tom's Fiction Musings. Sunday, August 11, 2013. Writing "The Held Daughter". This story took a convoluted path into being. It started with a pseudo-Wild West setting I was building for a novelette which would feature characters from their world's equivalent of the Qing Dynasty. The novelette was written and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. So I figured I would write more stories in this setting. And the story sat for a while. In the meantime I watched Bu Bu Jing Xin. Shortly after finish...
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Consilience: The Ox Comes ‘Round Again
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Friday, February 20, 2009. The Ox Comes ‘Round Again. So, the year of the Ox is here once more. The Ox is my birth year, and the last time it came around on the cycle was my twelve months in Korea. Perhaps the best year of my life, or damn close to it at any rate. What I miss most about that time is the living, breathing intensity of being. There The paleness of memory simply does not stack up. Still, I am glad beyond words to have those memories:. Welcome to Scud country. Population: You. I remember see...
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Consilience: Bayreuth Opera Inferno
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Friday, March 12, 2010. From the Summer of 2003. After having found out that we had won, I looked forward to scalping the tickets and being able to live comfortably off the proceeds for the next three years. My girlfriend- die-hard enthusiast that she is- insisted on actually going. This was probably for the best, for, as we discovered, the market for festival tickets can be surreal in ways that resemble the more bizarre parts of the narcotics trafficking industry. This area of Bavaria has a rural, conse...
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Consilience: 2014 in short films
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015. 2014 in short films. My favorite genre picks from this past year. The most action-packed was a fan film tribute to cyberpunk classic Deus Ex: Human Revolution. One with surprisingly high production values. While it starts out too slick and Hollywood, there are unexpected reversals and some fluid choreography, as well as well-developed tension in the final third. Courtesy of Machinima Prime. Delivers chilling moments in a conflict that has long since taken on a life of its own.
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Consilience: Beautiful Space Photos: Summer edition
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Sunday, July 20, 2014. Beautiful Space Photos: Summer edition. Some of these were featured by NASA on Twitter earlier this year to celebrate the Academy Award nominations garnered by Gravity. Also: Apollo photos to celebrate the 45th anniversary of humanity's first landing on another world. Public domain, courtesy of NASA unless otherwise noted. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A novella based on the award-winning short story "Lisa with Child." Available through Amazon.com. Available on Amazon.com.
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Consilience: Book review: The Court of the Red Tzar
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Thursday, December 18, 2014. Book review: The Court of the Red Tzar. It’s hard not to go numb when reading almost any history of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s. The number of atrocities famously curves upward from the level of human suffering into emotionless numbers. Montefiore’s eminently well researched, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tzar. Avoids inflicting such a loss of feeling by staying focused on individual and familial tragedy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Available from Amaz...
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Consilience: Copenhagen Cable Access
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Saturday, March 13, 2010. I think I wrote this back in the fall of 2003, when I had been in Sweden for about two years. When we moved to Lund we ended up changing cable TV providers and picked up a couple of new channels in the bargain. My favorite of these is Copenhagen's municipal cable access channel. The programming is…varied. An example of a day's offerings:. 17:00: Information on immigrants rights. 18:00: Hardcore right-wing Christian pro-Israeli propaganda in English, straight from the States....
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Consilience: 2013 in Short Films
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Sunday, January 05, 2014. 2013 in Short Films. Eleven months on and I'm still convinced. That short films are the new science fiction shorty story. Thanks to the Internet, they have the kind of reach and distribution that written short stories used to enjoy back in the heyday of science fiction magazines here in the US. While 2013 didn't produce as many solid, high concept pieces as 2012. Here's what I enjoyed. By Coyl Drumb remains my favorite. As for 2013 far as cyberpunk action with shades of Akira.
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“The Halo Wave” Published in the June Issue of XB-1 | Lael Salaets
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Other Worlds in Courier. 8220;The Halo Wave” Published in the June Issue of XB-1. You’re currently reading ““The Halo Wave” Published in the June Issue of XB-1,” an entry on Lael Salaets. June 1, 2012 / 4:39 pm. Jump to comment form. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Follow “La...
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“The Black Side of Memory” Available on Smashwords & Amazon | Lael Salaets
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Other Worlds in Courier. 8220;The Black Side of Memory” Available on Smashwords & Amazon. Https:/ www.smashwords.com/books/view/131244. Http:/ www.amazon.com/dp/B0077E3PYU/ref=rdr kindle ext tmb. Two members of a Force Recon unit are discharged with select memories of the war erased. Fragments of recall about a particular mission compel them to travel around the world for data they had left behind, which involve government secrets. Previously published in Writers of the Future XXVI. Jump to comment form.
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